DE L’OR CAKERY Salty Sea of Chocolate Cookie Mix | All Purpose Cookie Kit | Premium Ingredients | Easy To Follow Recipe | Yields 24 Cookies

The cookies tasted pretty good, but they were very decadent and high in saturated fat (if you follow the instructions using the two sticks of butter the recipe calls for). I do like how this mix does not contain any artificial ingredients or preservatives, and has a source of fiber. The chocolate chunks used are of good quality. The sea salt helps to take away some of the richness/sweetness of the cookie, but is at times, too flakey and hard to apply consistently. Overall the cookies are pretty good, but for the price and amount of saturated fat, I could not eat too many of these cookies.

First of all - don't miss the little packet of salt that is packaged separately, and could easily get lost in the bottom of the bubble bag. I bake a lot of chocolate chip cookies from scratch, and so the instructions on here hit me as somewhat odd. Just about all recipes are based on a "Large" egg - I don't think I've ever seen a recipe that specifically asked for "Jumbo" eggs since that's not what most people typically have on hand. Many other reviewers are saying the amount of butter seems excessive, your typical recipe on the back of the tollhouse bag also calls for two sticks of butter, but makes a much larger batch of cookies. I think it's the actual ingredients in the bag that seem a bit off (this bag is also only supposed to make 10 to 12 cookies, much less than a typical batch of tollhouse). The cookies baked up flat which could be either not enough flour, or old flour/old leavening (sodium bicarbonate). I also would have liked more chips.The cost for this bag at the time of this review was $26, for 10 to 12 cookies - that is basically how much you would pay at a bakery and not have to go through the work.So overall, I really did not find this much easier than making a batch from scratch and when I make them from scratch I know they're going to turn out exactly how I like them.

These cookies were very tasty. Since the salt is in a separate package, I could add the sea salt to half of the cookies and then try the cookies with and without the sea salt. In both cases, the cookies were delicious - there's lots of chocolate chips (large flat chips and regular-sized chips). Very yummy.My husband is the baker in the family and he made these cookies and provided this feedback on the instructions (that could trip up a new baker).*After mixing the butter and eggs, the instructions state to add in the entire contents of the cookie mix. And then it states to scoop the cookies into round balls. There's no instruction that you need to mix the cookie mix and butter/egg mixture. (obvious but it should state it)*There's no mention anywhere when to sprinkle the sea salt onto the cookies. It should mention that you sprinkle the sea salt after the cookies come out of the oven (but before they cool).*Baking time is vague/inaccurate. The instructions state to bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes. However, the baking time is dependent on the size of the ball you scooped onto the baking sheet - a smaller ball will take less time than a larger ball. We used a 2" scooper to create our round balls and they took 14 minutes to bake.*There's also no info on cookie size, just that there's 10-12 large cookies or 30 mini cookies. What size is large and what's mini? Our 2" scooper made 19 cookies that were 3 1/2" in diameter.*Not sure why they boast about the resealable packaging as there are no instructions as to how to make individual (or just a few cookies). There's just instructions on using the entire package of cookie mix.I do like these cookies, however at the current price of $25.95, these are far too expensive.

I am a scratch baker normally, but I was intrigued by the ingredients list to try this mix. The chips are large but not square like the picture, and there was not not enough were in this mix. These cookies just don't taste right from the oven and something is missing - possibly if all the salt is suppose to be added on top and they did not put it directly in the mix, all I taste is sweet without notes of brown sugar. I generally use European butter which has less water in it than American butter to bake and the mix was so dry, I had to add some water to get all the dry bits incorporated but yet the dough still tasted a little grainy. The order of adding the ingredients seems wrong since you adding eggs right to creamed butter and that just doesn't incorporate well. As a baker, I don't have jumbo eggs normally in stock, so I used 3 large eggs. The cookies also baked up slightly flat from a cold sheet pan - so I think the leavening was not fresh. Which has me wondering if the flour was rancid as well and if that can attributed to the off taste I perceived from the dough that is masked by the chocolate in the finished product? There was no date on the package that I could find. The cookies did not look like the picture in the listing at all. I would be embarrassed to serve these cookies, so I threw them out. What a waste of good butter and eggs. Don't buy this product but instead buy a bag of chocolate chunks.